A method approach to delivering an exceptional performance.

Do you know what needs to happen in a successful business presentation and how you make that happen?



Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Charisma

If you love what you do... If you love the audience... If you want to do right by both of them... Charisma will follow your lead.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Passionately Unemotional

Adding a narrative to your presentation can help you get beyond the paradox of being Passionately Unemotional.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

The Business Audience as Chorus


The character of the audience in a business presentation is found somewhere between a traditional citizen audience and a Greek chorus. Like a Greek chorus, the business audience is a group that is made up of individuals. Together they bring institutional knowledge to the presentation. They represent the culture and interests of all executives and employees. They serve as a foil to the presenter and senior managers in the audience are often eager to participate and be heard.

A skillful presenter can leverage the chorus attributes of their business audience to advantage: challenging them, wooing them, and letting them give voice to and become advocates for the message of the presentation: averting tragedy rather than courting it. 

From the National Theatre:  Modern Interpretations of the Greek Chorus.



Monday, March 2, 2015

Enriching a Corporate Culture


Employing performance art to broadly inculcate a company's value system is infinitely more powerful and effective than relying on the typical static "motivational poster" displays scattered throughout the office. If you attract the attention of employees through the compelling use of performance art in all of your business presentations, you will attract and retain employees of value and begin to cultivate a true company culture.

Pizza and foosball are small material benefits masquerading as culture. Watching managers and staff, who know what they are doing, give great presentations is exciting, inspiring, and culturally enriching.
 It says, "we know how to communicate."